What is wrong with non-profit organization

I received an email from UAW local yesterday, about non-profit organization. The message arrived quite late, which means I missed the hearing. But it is quite interesting to read, and quite illuminating for reflections upon such organizations. 

Here is the original message, which I guess does not require much comment from me. 

WORKERS' RIGHTS BOARD HEARING: "SO-CALLED NON-PROFITS"

Thursday June 22, 5:30-7:30pm
 
Springfield Area Members of the Western Massachusetts Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board will take testimony about rogue employers in the so-called "non-profit" sector. The Board Members participating in this hearing are.....

Massachusetts has one of the largest non-profit sectors in the US -and not just educational and health care institutions. It employs 1 out of every 7 people in the state. Unions, including several Members of Western Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, repeatedly discover the difficulties of organizing and bargaining contracts with such enterprises. But it is especially galling when they spend their tax-subsidized income on overt anti-unionism and, especially in the case of health care, lobbying to defeat reforms that would benefit those same people whose taxes and donations subsidize their
operations.

Members of our Workers' Rights Board will take testimony from workers and organizers about employers like the YWCA and Providence and Baystate health systems and others whose behavior and economic profile challenges the notion that they are in fact "non-profit." The Workers' Rights Board will be asked to recommend changes that end the exposed abuses.

The June 22 Panel, with organizations listed for identification only, is Irene Kimball, LCSW, retired - former Regional Director, Massachusetts Office for Children; John Bennett, retired educator - President, Massachusetts Senior Action Council; Prof. Harris Freeman - Western New England College Law School and UMass Amherst; Frances
Hubbard, retired professor, City College of New York, and former Board Member, Haymarket People's Fund Massachusetts Board and the Funding Exchange; Rev. Jonathan Tetherly - Chaplain, Hampden Correctional Center; Henry Twiggs, retired - Chairman, Springfield.